This Liao Zhai is not right

You only have a few dozen seconds left to live, and you still want to transform from a fox into a human?

Thoughts are floating in my mind.

The words on the cloth also changed as Su Su's thoughts changed.

'The gods return to their positions and their statues can be repaired; by collecting incense and prayer power, the gods' power can be restored and their lifespan increased.'

"Collecting incense and prayer power, does this mean that I want people to worship the gods and burn incense for me? But the land temple in Baishui Village has collapsed, where can I find people to burn incense for me? What's more, I look like a white-haired fox now. If I show up rashly, people will definitely think I'm a monster. Who would believe that a fox is the land god?"

"As for the return of the gods..."

Looking at the devastated ruins of the land temple around him, Su Su's meaning was self-evident.

The land temple is gone, so where will the gods go?

As the words representing life span on the cloth became fewer and fewer, Su Su couldn't help but feel angry.

'If you believe it, it exists; if you don't believe it, it doesn't exist'

The writing on the cloth changed again.

"So as long as someone believes that I am the land god of Baishui Village, it will be considered as the return of the god?" Su Su nodded in understanding.

It lowered its front face, stood up its hind legs with difficulty, and walked out of its hiding place slowly like a puppy standing on its hind legs to bow. It sighed and said, "At this point, I can only show up to scare this old man who broke into the land temple."

The skinny old man with gray hair and about fifty years old who walked into the ruins of the land temple alone should be the Zhao Xiucai who was talking outside the temple before.

After all, the other voices were all young and strong with full energy, only Zhao Xiucai's voice was low and weak, which made it quite recognizable.

He is over fifty years old and weak, so it stands to reason that he would not be very brave.

But they are much easier to deal with than those young men who are guarding outside the land temple and still talking in low voices.

"Mr. Zhao...Mr. Zhao..."

The sound of a low voice was like that of a baby crying.

Hearing this, Mr. Zhao turned his head and looked in the direction of the voice. He suddenly saw a thin figure with white hair standing on its hind legs about ten steps away. It seemed as if the white-haired figure was wearing a crimson garment.

monster?

Mr. Zhao was confused, but it was already bright outside and it was no longer the time for demons and ghosts to cause trouble, so he was not panicked.

"Mr. Zhao... Mr. Zhao... Do you think I look like a god... or a human?"

As soon as these words were spoken, Mr. Zhao felt his scalp tingling, his hair standing on end, and cold sweat pouring down his back. In just a moment, his entire back was completely wet.

As a scholar with honors, Zhao Xiucai obviously knew that this was an alien creature that had cultivated to the level of Taoism and was asking him for a title. If he answered that it looked like a god, it would be able to cultivate and become an immortal. If he answered that it looked like a human, it would transform into a human.

If it was a young and strong man who was asked by the aliens to borrow their popularity, at most he would suffer a serious illness. But for an old man like him who is over fifty years old, the worst case scenario is that he would become paralyzed on one side of his body, or even die.

With his hands tightly grasping the hem of his clothes, a blue complexion spread to his lips. Mr. Zhao felt as if his head was as big as a bucket. He stood there in a daze, not daring to speak easily.

"Mr. Zhao... Mr. Zhao... Do you think I look like a god... or a human?"

When he spoke again, it was still the same low cry like a baby's cry, but with a little more impatience.

The countdown of life expectancy on the cloth in sight was only thirty.

When the lifespan reaches zero, it is still unknown whether one will turn into a ghost or die on the spot.

Su Fu couldn't afford to delay any longer.

His tone became more urgent, "Mr. Zhao... Mr. Zhao... Do you think I look like a god... or a human?"

As Su Su walked closer, Zhao Xiucai's eyes opened wider and wider. Perhaps he noticed that the crimson clothes draped over the white-haired figure looked familiar, so he turned his gaze to look at the cracked statue of the land god soaked in the mud.

Crimson robe...

The style is exactly the same as the crimson clothes worn by the white-haired figure in front of him.

"This is just a weirdo who came to me to ask for a title..."

Zhao Xiucai's mind was in a mess, and he asked in a trembling voice, "Could this immortal be the land god who protects the hundreds of households in Baishui Village?"

The moment the word "Land God" came out of Zhao Xiucai's mouth, the countdown of Su Su's life span, which was almost in single digits in his sight, suddenly stopped.

A large ball of white light could be seen emanating from the cracked land statue in the mud and floating into Su Su's body.

Immediately, a vigorous and warm current flowed from the mud under my feet into my limbs and bones, and my confused mind suddenly became clear.

The senses become extremely acute.

There are the carriages going further and further away from the village, the curling smoke from the cooking fires in the village, the whispers of the country women, the frightened looks of the young men outside the land temple, even the fragrance of the soil after the rain, and the rustling sounds of birds pecking at insects in the fields.

All of them flow into my mind.

The weak but powerful divine power continuously flowed into Su Su's body.

After a while, the vigorous and warm heat surging through his limbs gradually dissipated, and Su Su found that his movements of standing on his hind legs became more and more natural. He did not know when a crimson robe was put on his fluffy white fur, and a copper seal was hung on his dangling front paws, with the seal characters of "Landlord of Baishui Village" vaguely visible.

Meanwhile, the single-digit number of Su Fu's remaining lifespan written on the cloth continued to increase, and in the blink of an eye it was completely different from before.

In addition to the original content, a few new lines of handwriting were added.

【Name: Su Su】

[Divine Power: 5]

[Status: Severely injured (Inner elixir shattered, the statue is not formed, both body and soul are injured)]

[Clergymanship: Temporarily taking over the land of Baishui Village under the jurisdiction of Guobei County, Jichuan Prefecture]

[Lifespan: 105 days]

"The land god is responsible for the safety of the area. There is a fierce ghost lurking two miles west of Baishui Village. If left unchecked, it may cause disaster."

"?"

The front paw rubbed the pointed front face in a very human way. Su Su was speechless for a while, "Forget it, I am not even a human now, and you want me to exorcise evil spirits? Isn't it a bit too difficult for this fox?"

'It is the duty of the land gods to protect the country and the people; collecting incense and prayer power can restore their power and increase their lifespan.'

Looking at the content in front of him that had not changed much, Su Su seemed to have discovered something, and thought to himself, "Why don't you turn me into a human first!"

'Collecting incense and wish power can restore divine power and increase lifespan; transform into a different form, or absorb the spiritual energy of the sun and the moon, waiting for the heavenly calamity to befall you and cleanse your mortal body; or take over the body of another; or dissolve into the air and enter reincarnation, with a little spiritual light that will never fade.'

Su Su finally discovered that the cloth in his sight was just a dead object that could extract key words to answer the doubts in its mind. Apart from being able to provide information query function, it was useless.

But it cannot be said that it is completely useless. At least in the matter of replacing the land god, there is no doubt that the cloth in front of Su Su was the one who did it.

"Lord of the Land, Lord of the Land?"

Zhao Xiucai, who was standing by, saw Su Su wrapped in white light. After more than ten breaths, the white light gradually dissipated.

After the white light faded away, although the white figure in crimson robes in front of him did not change much, he noticed that the cracked statue that was previously soaked in the mud had unknowingly turned into an image of a man holding a fox and whose face could not be seen clearly.

When he came to his senses, he found that the white figure in crimson robe had disappeared.

On the dilapidated ruins of the land temple, only the statue of the land god with a fox in his arms stands away from the water, as if it possesses great divine power.

"Don't worry about rebuilding the land temple. There is a ghost haunting two miles west of Baishui Village. I...this god is powerless now, so you should stay away. It's best to find a Taoist priest to get rid of it as soon as possible."

Chapter 3 Tan Jinxuan

Zhao Xiucai's heart trembled when he heard this.

Judging from what the God of Land said, there must have been some evil spirit causing trouble last night with heavy rain, lightning and thunder.

In order to deal with this monster, the land temple collapsed, the statue of the land god cracked, and the land god of Baishui Village, who had protected the area for many years, was beaten back to his original form. He was so miserable that he had to seek a title from an old man like himself.

Now that the situation has improved a little, he immediately reminded himself that there is an evil ghost lurking in the village, and he should find a Taoist priest to exorcise the evil spirit as soon as possible, instead of asking the villagers of Baishui Village to rebuild the land temple in a hurry.

I guess the reason why I didn't feel any discomfort after being asked for the title was because the God of Land was secretly protecting me.

He really makes me cry to death.

Mr. Zhao's hunched and thin figure gradually became firmer, and he turned around and walked out of the muddy ruins of the land temple.

Exorcising evil spirits and ghosts is important, but rebuilding the land temple to add incense to the God of Land is even more important!

At this time, Su Su naturally had no idea what Zhao Xiucai was planning. He only saw a palm-sized ball of white light suddenly emerge from Zhao Xiucai's body and float towards him, then sink into his crown. The vigorous and warm heat spread throughout his body, and finally turned into a wisp of mist and sank into his heart.

Immediately, the lifespan marked on the cloth soared from one hundred and five days to more than three hundred days, which was close to a year, and the divine power increased directly from the single-digit five to fifteen.

Su Su's pointed face showed joy. He felt that after this ball of white light entered his body, in addition to increasing his lifespan, his ability to control his forefoot had also been significantly improved.

Gently swinging my front feet feels like reaching out my hand when I was a human.

"Logically speaking, since the white-haired fox's body was not reduced to ashes by the heavenly calamity, and I am still alive, doesn't it mean that I... have completely survived the heavenly calamity to some extent?" Su Sutian thought shamelessly.

You wouldn't know unless you said it. When Su Su thought about it, he suddenly felt that he had already completely survived the heavenly tribulation to some extent, and it could be said that it was a foregone conclusion.

After all, I, Su, am now the official land god of Baishui Village. Who was the fox demon that was struck by lightning last night?

I don’t know him at all!

Once he accepted his identity as the land god, Su Su was invincible.

Through the strange behavior shown by Mr. Zhao before, Su Su realized that his image in the eyes of others might not be as simple as a white-haired fox that can walk upright.

Especially after Zhao Xiucai left the land temple, it wandered in front of several villagers who were busy cleaning up the ruins, and everyone ignored it.

Once people have something to rely on, they will inevitably become bolder.

Finding that the villagers couldn't see him, Su Su simply openly inquired about the situation in Baishui Village.

Walking around the whole village, except for the babbling babies who could vaguely sense Su Su's presence and glanced at him from time to time, the rest of the villagers would not have noticed Su Su even if he walked past them.

"They can only see me when I want them to."

Su Su stopped walking out of boredom. Baishui Village had a total of about a hundred households scattered on the south bank of the river. Even if the reclaimed fields were included, it only occupied an area of a few miles.

After leaving Baishui Village and heading west, walk four or five miles along the mountain road to the neighboring Guojia Village. Along the way, you will pass a mountain of graves, and Su Su can see the sight of bones exposed in the wild from a distance.

It's creepy enough to look at it at noon when the sun is at its highest, not to mention how creepy it would be at night.

"Mr. Zhao took his people to Guobei County to find a Taoist priest to exorcise evil spirits. He definitely couldn't make it back that day. The reconstruction of the land temple was progressing quite fast. The foundation was dug in half a day. The small temple, which was so crowded that two people standing side by side would feel uncomfortable, was built with mud bricks. It will be completed in four or five days at most."

As Su Su was thinking, he suddenly heard a loud noise coming from outside Baishui Village.

Hurrying over, Su Su discovered that the man was a scholar in a blue shirt carrying a box on his back and wanted to enter the village. However, he was stopped by several farmers working in the fields just as he reached the outskirts of the village.

The scholar in a green shirt raised his head and chest and asked loudly, "Half a day ago, I ran into Senior Zhao from Baishui Village outside Guobei County. I heard that there was a ghost haunting two miles west of Baishui Village, so I came to Baishui Village to exorcise the evil spirits and verify what I learned in my life. You country folks, don't stop me."

Seeing that the scholar in blue was so confident and familiar with the village scholar Zhao, several farmers were immediately stumped by his questions and could not help being speechless for a moment.

Whether it is Mr. Zhao, who is over fifty years old and has a high status in the village, or the scholar in blue shirt who came from the county town and claimed to be trying to exorcise evil spirits and verify what he had learned in his life, in the eyes of these honest farmers, they are people who cannot be offended.

They laughed at the pedantic scholar behind his back, but did not dare to be rude to his face.

As for how the scholar's life-long learning in writing was connected to the ability to exorcise evil spirits, he didn't even dare to ask.

Just when a few farmers who were blocking the road were beginning to think of backing off and were planning to let the scholar in blue shirts enter the village.

A burst of sneer suddenly came.

"You are just boasting, aren't you afraid of having your tongue bitten by the wind? Scholars like you are drained of their yang energy and their blood and essence sucked out by foxes and monsters in the mountains every year, and their bodies are left in the wilderness. It's better to go home, it's better to go home, so as not to lose your life in confusion."

An old man with disheveled hair, wearing a straw raincoat and a bamboo pole on his shoulder, as if he had just returned from fishing in the river, walked past the scholar in blue clothes with a sneer and half-closed eyes.

Don't look away, just ignore it.

The scholar in green shirt was not at all annoyed by the old man in straw raincoat and hat's sneer. Instead, he bowed very carefully and said, "My name is Tan An, with the courtesy name Jinxuan. I am a student of Guobei County. Last year, I learned the art of guiding and training Qi, and I have been doing it all year round for more than six months. Recently, I have completed the elixir and can even distinguish the sound of mosquitoes. May I know your name, senior?"

The old man in the straw raincoat and hat glanced at Tan Jinxuan.

"Have you succeeded in practicing Qi? I think you have practiced Qi disorder, and I can't even tell whether you are a human or a ghost."

The old man in the straw raincoat and hat sneered even louder, "Go, go, go, find a doctor as soon as possible to treat you, there is still hope. If you leave the disease behind, it may turn into hysteria in the future."

After saying this, the old man in the straw raincoat and hat said nothing more and walked towards Baishui Village.

Tan Jinxuan looked embarrassed and didn't know what to do. He stood there thinking for a moment, and finally made up his mind to follow the old man in the straw raincoat and hat into the village to try to resolve the doubts in his heart.

However, Su Su was still observing the two of them with interest from a distance. Tan Jinxuan's face was pale and there was black air floating on his forehead, obviously he had offended some dirty creature, while the old man in the straw raincoat and hat walked briskly, and his physique under the coarse cloth showed a sturdiness that was completely different from his appearance age.

The old Taoist with half black and half white hair tore off his clothes after encountering a ghost, revealing his muscular body, and then he used his fists to exorcise the evil spirits.

This scene is really eye-catching.

After a few very human exclamations, Su Su put aside the curious images in his mind and prepared to turn around and leave.

Unexpectedly, the old man in the straw raincoat and hat came straight over, restrained the sneer on his face, bowed towards Su Fu and said, "I didn't know the land god was here. I am sorry for being so reckless."